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...despite several nearly perfect setup passes and almost open-net opportunities, the Big Green slammed the door shut, tipping passes away from potential shooters and blocking shots before they reached keeper Christine Capuano, who was still forced to record 37 saves despite the support in front...
...remember that my first-grade teacher was a real battle-ax, but if I had ever spoken to her as did the 6-year-old in your article who told his teacher to "shut up, bitch," I would have been tasting laundry soap for days. We were exposed to as much violence in the movies and on TV as the current crop of kids. We also had working mothers, but our parents knew how to set and enforce limits and didn't hesitate to do so. It's up to the parents to raise their children. Too many of them...
...reporters in Europe last month, "is to project power into theaters that may be distant from where they are based." That will require a variety of changes on the ground. Of some 500 U.S. military installations in Europe, for example, some 20% are not "terribly useful" and may be shut down, America's top commander in Europe, General James Jones, told reporters last year. Some troops may be redeployed to the U.S., where pressure to keep bases open on home soil is mounting in an election year. Others, particularly those associated with airbases, will be left in place. German officials...
...play down the country's reputation as a nanny state. Targeting Aristide HAITI Three people died and more than 20 were injured in violent clashes between opponents and supporters of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Opposition leaders, who accuse Aristide of corruption, called a two-day general strike, which shut down many businesses in Port-au-Prince. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Ye Cannae Dae That To many, the Scottish lilt is charming and even rather attractive (think Sean Connery). But not, it seems, to the British Foreign Office, which was forced to apologize for denying a Russian student a visa...
...hunt, of course?it's another phony nuclear deal. And the credulous buyers aren't simpletons at a county fair?they're top Western and Asian statesmen. Given the high stakes in this sting and the sophistication of the intended victims, you'd think the game would have been shut down before now. But you'd be wrong. The latest hapless steps toward another session of "six-party talks" in the North Korean nuclear drama, in fact, suggest that diplomats are assuming their familiar positions for another round of atomic bait-and-switch...